News Archive | February 2016

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February 29th
- UK broadband speeds suffer from “poverty of ambition”
- Snapchat employee data lost in phishing attack
February 26th
- Capgemini: Learning digital skills 'first hurdle' for young people
- Snooper's Charter could lead to Apple vs FBI-style case in UK
- Google to offer DDoS protection for news sites
February 25th
- Security experts uncover masterminds behind Sony Pictures hack
- UK 'lags behind' Europe in digital performance
- TalkTalk slams Ofcom's decision to leave BT in control of Openreach
- UK start-ups want to remain in EU, finds Coadec
- HP Inc blames Windows 10 for drop in PC sales
- France to seek €1.6 billion from Google in back taxes
- Why an AI workforce would make humans more skilled workers
February 24th
- Nexus 6 top features: Wireless charging, Android Marshmallow and a QHD screen
- UKnowKids turns against researcher who found 1,700 children’s data was at risk
February 23rd
- Lenovo Tab3 10 Biz hands-on
- MWC 2016: Intel works with Verizon and Nokia to usher in 5G age
- GSMA, Google and global carriers back new messaging standard
February 22nd
- MWC 2016: Nokia plans to re-enter smartphone market
- Dell: Malware attacks double in just 12 months
- MWC 2016: Facebook creates Social VR team to explore future of virtual reality
- HTC One X9 hands-on
- TechHub Swansea lists JustEat and Google as mentors for start-up accelerator scheme
- PC-forged malware swamps iOS and Android
- Sony Xperia X hands-on - the Z6 by any other name is just as sweet
February 21st
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and S7 hands on
- Huawei MateBook hands-on - the laser-pointer hybrid with its sights on your office
- LG G5 hands-on - forget Project Ara, the customisable modular smartphone is already here
- HP Elite X3 hands-on - this Windows phone wants to be your laptop
February 19th
- Tech North shouldn't bow to 'London-centric narrative', says Manchester start-up
- Three moves to block ads from mobile phones at network level
- Hackers leverage 26,000 WordPress websites in massive DDoS attack
- HSBC to replace passwords with biometric banking
February 18th
- UK and Israel join forces to invest in cybersecurity start-ups
- IBM announces $5m AI X Prize competition at TED
- LA hospital pays £12,000 Bitcoin ransomware demand
February 17th
- IoT infrastructure investment reaching 'tipping point', claims research
- Leap Motion unveils Orion hand-tracking system for VR
- 360TB glass disc will preserve human history for “billions of years”
- Instagram begins rolling out two-factor authentication
- Linux vulnerability leaves thousands open to DNS attack
- Samsung's new mid-range smartphone CPU is 30% more efficient
- University of Greenwich students’ data leaked online
February 16th
- Hospitals are too easy to hack, warns Kaspersky
- Government consults on porn site age checks
- Volvo outsources IT to HCL Technologies in five-year deal
- Vodafone and Liberty Global UK merger 'unlikely’, despite Dutch tie-up
- Hackers could use VoIP phones to eavesdrop on you
February 15th
- Facebook reiterates zero tolerance stance on child exploitation
- Lumia 650: The £150 budget phone aimed at business users
- British teen arrested for contravening Computer Misuse Act
February 12th
- Trial of two French Uber executives begins
- EE doubles 4G subscriber base to 14m
- Google recruitment drive signals big plans for self-driving car project
- Tech firms required to divulge gender pay gap under new ruling
- Banks urged to share data but warned over security
- Google to dump Flash in ads from June
February 11th
- UCL sets record for fastest data rate
- UK privacy watchdog warns that IoT devices can track people
- Top tech execs to mentor early stage e-commerce startups
- Google to extend 'right to be forgotten' to all search sites for EU users
February 10th
- Google: No-one installed Lockdroid apps
- Ocado works out how to control 1,000 robots at once
- Your IoT devices could spy on you, admits US intelligence chief
- Will Android's Andy Rubin help deliver the next big AI innovation?
- Bromley Council pays BT £9m for desktop and data services
- NATO deploys collaboration platform for mission success
- ISE 2016: Be wary of "the Internet of Stupid Things"
February 9th
- Should you fight back against hackers?
- Snooper’s Charter fails to protect privacy, warn MPs
- France gives Facebook data privacy ultimatum
- Hacker threatens to leak data of 20,000 FBI employees
- Why cybercrime will always need humans
- The Isle of Man could be the first nation in the world to fully allow self-driving cars
February 8th
- UK government wants Google to trial driverless cars in London
- Carbanak 2.0: the billion-dollar bank heist is back
- Free Basics: India blocks Facebook's web service
- New Java bug leads to "complete compromise" of PC, warns Oracle
- Twitter shuts down 125,000 ISIS-related accounts
- Blackberry to shut BBM Meetings this week
February 5th
- Canonical launches first ‘converged device’ for Ubuntu OS
- OPM "refusing to co-operate" with government data breach enquiry
- Jive launches three collaboration platforms for the enterprise
February 4th
- Will Microsoft Edge actually get some good extensions?
- Check Point wants to protect SMBs from cyber attacks
- Google AdWords will display anti-radicalisation links
- Apple beats Alphabet to become world's biggest firm again
- TechHub and Google for Entrepreneurs will mentor start-ups
February 3rd
- Mental healthcare should be 'digital by default', says SLaM CEO
- Microsoft buys London-based SwiftKey
- BT broadband restored after nationwide outages
- Fisher Price Toys and childrens' watches can be hacked
February 2nd
- Mayor of London launches international growth scheme for SMBs
- eBay 'refuses to fix app security flaw'
- Tablet sales decline, but detachables rise in popularity
- Jaguar Land Rover researching into human-like automation
February 1st
- Security is the biggest barrier to IoT adoption
- Facebook investigates claims Android app cuts battery life by 20%
- Google 'could deliver 5G from solar-powered drones'
- Ofcom urges EU to block Three-O2 merger
- Android.Lockdroid.E ransomware could affect 67% of devices
- Lincolnshire County Council site hit by ransomware